Lidy Nacpil (Philippines) is International Coordinator of Jubilee South, a network of anti-debt coalitions in more than 60 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She currently serves as vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition in the Philippines, the oldest organization working for debt cancellation since 1988.  FDC supports a Citizens’ audit of loans given to the government to determine whether they are illegitimate.

Lidy started her activist career campaigning against the Marcos dictatorship. Her first husband was killed by the military in 1987, leaving Lidy alone with her young daughter. In 1993, she began her anti-debt and economic justice work and is now considered one of the leading experts on the subject.

Much of the Philippines’s debt accrued during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. A particularly harmful example is that of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which has never produced any power for the people of the Philippines, yet the government is still repaying over $2 billion in loans for the project.

Lidy is a speaker for the "New Energy for Debt Cancellation" leg of the Global Connections Tour.